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EVERY WEEK, TheJournal.ie offers a selection of statistics and numerical nuggets to help you digest the week that has just passed.
9.1 million (and counting) - The number of views on YouTube of the video of Meath priest Fr Ray Kelly singing his own version of Halleluia at a couple’s wedding.
7.2 million - The amount that was given to the Exchequer last year from the Criminal Assets Bureau after being seized as a result of criminal activity.
6.39 million - The number of Toyota cars which have been recalled worldwide.
8,121 - The number of people who were sent to jail last year for not paying a fine. Of these, 411 were jailed for not having a TV licence.
4,825 - The number of cups that a small German furniture shop chain ordered which bore a faint portrait of Adolf Hitler before it realised the problem. The cups have been destroyed.
2,840 - The number of kilometres of cycle routes which are being planned for Dublin over the next decade.
107 - The number of times that Queen Elizabeth has played host to visiting heads of state (including President Higgins this week).
92 - The percentage of money used to run Rehab Ireland’s operations which come from the taxpayer, or from fundraised monies from the Irish public.
29 - The number of people who died in the Omagh bombing. A man was charged with their murders this week, sixteen years after it happened.
13 3/4 - The age Adrian Mole was when he started his diaries. Diary-keeper Sue Townsend died this week at the age of 68.
6 - The number of hours in the work day for some local government employees in the Swedish city of Gothenburg, in a new plan to cut down on sick leave and boost efficiency.
1 - The number of days that Google will offer Google Glass for sale to the general public (but only if they can be delivered to the US). The pricetag? A cool $1,500…
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What about all the Guinness farts
Self regulating. When it gets too hot to grow barley and rye, Guinness production will plummet.
I have no doubt whatsoever, that this will just take more money out of our pockets.
the scam continues
You more than welcome to come up with your own initiatives to incentives fighting climate change
Stop screwing with nature might be a start!!
Ireland has about 1.1m dairy cows for a human population of 4.595 m a ratio of 4 people per cow. The UK has about 1.8m dairy cows for a human population of 64.1m. A ratio of 36 people per dairy cow. I can’t believe I just used up 5 minutes looking this up!!
Good stat!
Now all we have to worry about are the gas emissions from Enda, Michael, Joan and John Tierney ! NO SECOND TAX ON WATER
November 1st
I’d say that a lot of people interested in this story won’t be at the march, as we don’t have access to mains water or sewage due to living in rural areas. We are the ones who have had to put up with the water tax until now: paying taxes to provide free water and sewage services that we can’t access.
Gosh, the divide and conquer boys from Fg Hq on the ball straight away, eh Denito?
Look out for “congestion charges ” and an attack on solid fuels for homes. These geniuses know only one way out of a problem – tax it.
And your solution is what genius?
We’re being farted into oblivion by cows now.
What next from the green lobby?
Blinking causes volcanos?
I guess dumb people will take longer to understand the real issue here
@Higgins – …and even longer for brainwashed green school program graduates!
I’m not in a “green school” what are you talking about?
Cows always farted. Why problem now. You should eat an onion sandwich
The volume of cows is the concern
John it’s not their farts that are seen as the problem, it’s their belches!
@Higgins – the volume of green propaganda from the cult of climate change is a concern!
No it’s not. They are just trying to ensure our children have a planet that is not completely destroyed by the greed of some.
And the stupidity and ignorance of others!
@Brendan – keep drinking the green Marxist kool Aid Brendan.
Busted yet again, I see you, or one of the twenty divine persons in one, at least :-D
What incentive do I have to want to stop climate change that would be deemed selfish?
@Paul. Calling people who disagree with you marxist? My first thought was you must be a right wing conspiracy theorist. The I looked at your facebook page and saw you like to share Pat Condell and Alex Jones videos. Right wing conspiracy theorist confirmed!!
@ K Lawlor – sharing one AJ video does not make one a Conspiracy Theorist, whatever that is. Nice try! The classic leftist ad hominem attack. As far as Marxist greenism is concerned – I think it is fair to say that most green doctrine aligns closely with Marxist ideology dressed up in the clothes of the environment. For example … Now where did Mary robinson get her catchphrase, ‘ climate justice’ …oh yes it comes from the phrase ‘ social justice’, straight out of communism.
This is how the scam started.
“The common enemy of humanity is man.
In searching for a new enemy to unite us, we came up
with the idea that pollution, the threat of global warming,
water shortages, famine and the like would fit the bill. All these
dangers are caused by human intervention, and it is only through
changed attitudes and behavior that they can be overcome.
The real enemy then, is humanity itself.”
- Club of Rome,
It’s their belching, not farting, that are the source of the emissions.
A renewable powered economy will mean financial freedom in the future. Dependancy on fossil fuels will financially cripple us in the future if we don’t act now.
Anytime we mention wind farms the not in my backyard brigade shout it down. What magical renewable resource should we use? The only non fossil fuel that could actually make us energy independent is nuclear and that’s not going to happen here either.
Wind has only been proposed on a large scale. You home even notice home wind turbines and they will power around 40% of the family home. Solar panels will cover a large % and pay themselves within 5 years now.
Finally good insulation, triple glazed windows and passive home techniques will lower energy usage thus a higher % from renewables powering the home. Add in some rainwater catchment and your not even paying any bills. Many examples around ireland you can visit.
Or we could stay negative, cold and dependant on rising energy prices, up to you.
Solar does not even work in California.
http://clui.org/sites/default/files/ludb/ca/4775/5663328384_78b315c91a_o.jpg
@Higgins – Get real please. All these are heavily subsidised by the taxpayer, just like you beloved wind turbines.
Your
Solar panels are one of the least cost-effective ways of combating climate change and will take 100 years to pay back their installation costs, the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (Rics) warned.
Kevin, climate change is real and we need to get off fossil fuels. I’ve stated my position.
But there is no alternative to fossil fuels right now. Every proposed alternative relies on also digging increasingly scarce resources out of the ground. There is no such thing as a renewable source in that sense.
We have to stop waiting for solar and wind to be the magic bullet. Stop subsidizing them and send the money to ITER instead.
You are so full of shite. I lived in California for decades and it most assuredly does work there. In fact, PG&E, the utility company for N California just opened the largest solar generating station in the world there.
What the flock is the matter with you? You just make this crap up as you go along?
If you’re going to argue your point, fine, but don’t make shite up, dude. Makes you look like a complete arse-clown.
Strange, if it doesn’t work, why are 1.8 gigawatts of electricity being generated in California by solar technology today?
Some working solar projects, despite what foggy blathers on about.
1.8 gigawatts (that’s 1,800 Megawatts) of solar generating capacity.
http://www.brightsourceenergy.com/projects#.VEo4ZXW9-kA
“Solar does not even work in California”
–Fognostical
Seamus, I couldn’t agree more, the amount of airy disinformation which is spewed on these boards defies belief. They gamble that no-one is going to do any research themselves and will accept their statements as holy writ. Solar energy generation works, and works well, in many locations. The only question is how to make it work well here.
Looking at people in Ireland who are already carbon neutral like houses in cloughjordan it works perfectly. Little to no bills and clean energy. Why would someone argue against such common sense?
@Seamus – is that why California is bankrupt?
The Levelized Cost of Electricity at 2012 prices in the USA is [$/MWh]
Advanced Nuclear 96.1
Wind 80.3
Off-shore wind 204.1
Solar 130
Biomass 102.6.
Wind and solar are both intermittent and unreliable and require vast amounts of space while producing no power for most of the time and in the case of wind at times when it can’t be used. Consider the ‘energy density’ factor of power plants, here for a 1000MW output.
Nuclear and coal 1 to 4 Km²
Solar 50 Km²
Wind 50-150Km²
Biomass up to 6000 Km²
And here comes another tax !!! Climate change my ar se
Our figures weigh up very badly as they’re all adjusted “per capita”. Due to our predominantly rural nature farming is one of our staple industries, whereas a massively Industrial country like Germany, France or the UK can have lower emissions “per capita”, despite the fact that they are relying on burning massive amounts of Coal & LNG to power their 60 million plus populations!
That said I am very much in favour of trending towards renewable energies and Europes reliance on Russia for energy…
Global warming stopped 18 years ago but the scam behind it continues. Just a reminder, Germany is building 10 new coal fired power stations to cope with the failure of its ‘green’ power and the UK is facing serious power shortages even after they ruined much of their countryside with wind farms.
Your ignorance is a danger to our children. History will judge you as the type of person that condemned humanity to a more violent and harsher world. Please remember both your name and this comment may still be around in 90 years time when climate change really starts ruining millions of lives. Some poor kid will be ashamed to be your grandson if you don’t pull your head out of the ground and listen to what 99% of climate scientists are screaming at us today.
Daniel – 99%? Please stop invoking that made up statistic by the green movement please. It’s getting tiresome now. It’s clear you’ve been well brainwashed by the green schools program.
I teach science. I enjoy shaming scams and myths as much as you do but this is the real deal. This is the one thing we have to not screw up. This is what wellt be remembered for Would you like to say anything here for the record in your defence? Maybe why you let the world down? Say something to your grand kids, go on. You know your comments will still be readable in the future. Tell them why you thought the way you did.
The fact is that the debate is just getting started and that the climate issue is very much undecided. The fact that warming has not occurred in 18 years, Antarctic sea ice is at record high levels, and that more than 97% of the climate models have been dead wrong have made life difficult for those insisting the debate is over.
P. Gosselin
All of the top ten hottest years have been in the last fifteen. This year is set to be the hottest ever.
Antarctic ice is indeed higher this year. Except that it’s generally trending downwards and the Arctic ice cover is on the point of collapse. There is only one natural glacier in the world that ISN’T melting.
Climate is an incredibly complicated system and it doesn’t apply evenly across the surface of the planet. But it drives me to distraction when people nit pick specific places where it’s colder and not the overall planet. Do you even know why the Antarctic has had an increase in coverage? Do you know what the isostatic and bathymetric relationship between the Arctic and Antarctic is? Or are you, like millions of people, taking any small sound bite as gospel because you don’t want to accept that the way we live our lives is completely unsustainable?
The Earth was here long before we go here, and it will be here long before it’s gone. We will not drive the planet to destruction, life will find a way. I don’t want to save the Earth for it’s own sake. I want to save the Earth for ME! And our kids.
No, the debate is not getting started.
The most common misconception regarding Antarctic sea ice is that sea ice is increasing because it’s cooling around Antarctica. The reality is the Southern Ocean surrounding Antarctica has shown strong warming over the same period that sea ice has been increasing. Globally from 1955 to 1995, oceans have been warming at 0.1°C per decade. In contrast, the Southern Ocean (specifically the region where Antarctic sea ice forms) has been warming at 0.17°C per decade. Not only is the Southern Ocean warming, it’s warming faster than the global trend. This warming trend is apparent in satellite measurements of temperature trends over Antarctica.
If the Southern Ocean is warming, why is sea ice increasing? There are several contributing factors. One is the drop in ozone levels over Antarctica. The hole in the ozone layer above the South Pole has caused cooling in the stratosphere (Gillet 2003). A side-effect is a strengthening of the cyclonic winds that circle the Antarctic continent (Thompson 2002). The wind pushes sea ice around, creating areas of open water known as polynyas. More polynyas leads to increased sea ice production (Turner 2009).
It isn’t very difficult to google your erroneous statement and come up with lots of peer reviewed articles about the increase in sea ice despite MEASURED increases in ocean temperatures. Apparently, you are incapable of doing this. All the more is the pity.
@Daniel – my grandchildren will be just fine Daniel. For starters I won’t allow them to be indoctrinated into the green brainwashing schools program by ‘the sky is falling’ types like you. They will be taught to think critically. The climate has been changing for thousands of years and will continue to do so – it is completely normal and natural, and it does not require me giving up my liberty or money to help it along – which is what the green communists such as yourself are after.
The warmest year in the last 100 was 1934 as measured at Dublin Airport amongst other places. The data was on the NASA/GISS website until James Hansen ‘retired’ but for some reason all this was deleted when he left. Try this link and you will see what I mean. http://data.giss.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/gistemp/gistemp_station.py?id=621039690003&data_set=0&num_neighbors=1
That notice has been up since April 2013, can you accept that NASA could not have sorted the ‘technical problem’ in over a year ?
That is one of two links that showed the data before and after it was tampered with. I have some of it saved.
Look out for “congestion charges ” in Dublin and an attack on solid fuels for households. These geniuses only know one way – tax.
Given the people can’t change themselves they don’t really have another choice
Given that people can’t and WON’T change themselves…….
The problem with cows is that they already contribute almost 30% of Ireland’s greenhouse gas emissions. Milk quotas are being abolished next year and we will see a huge increase in the numbers of dairy cattle, hence increasing the amount of emissions.
@Mark – there is no problem with cows. Cows are just fine – as God intended them to be. Go check yourself in for debriefing from all this green brainwashing. You’ll feel much better!
God? Don’t bring your made up sky man in to this debate.
@Jimbo – that’s nice Jimbo! – did you get that out of the required reading book you picked up at freshers week at twinity recently? …(incorrect spelling of twinity intended).
Not trinners, no Paul. Not freshers either, not for ten years anyway. I’ve just had a look at the videos on your facebook page, I’m not going to engage with a racist looper like yourself. On your way now.
@Jimbo – so I’m a racist am I? And where exactly do you get that from? Oh yes, of course…you made it up – because that’s the kind of stuff you lefties say when someone doesn’t agree with you, (as well as stalking their personal web pages). Nice try!
The scam of solar power which gets frequent mention by greenies here on the Journal continues. Hawaii and California would seem to be ideal for solar compared to rainy Ireland and look what happened to them.
http://www.hawaiifreepress.com/ArticlesMain/tabid/56/ID/4686/Hawaiirsquos-Future-Abandoned-Solar-Farms-Clutter-California-Desert.aspx
What your misleading premise overlooks is that the research and development phase (pilot projects) were proven to work and have been replaced by the largest solar collector generating station in the world.
Why are you posting inaccurate and misleading information attacking solar power?
Too much Alex Jones, Foggy?
Here’s 377 Megawatts of “it won’t work” producing electricity for PG&E in California.
“It doesn’t matter what is true,
it only matters what people believe is true.”
- Paul Watson,
co-founder of Greenpeace
Ahhh, thats a relief
So does that mean that the government is going to get rid of this carbon tax they imposed on us and we will stop being fined by Europe fir not reaching said targets
The EUSSR can ration your electricity and water right now, what did you think smart meters were for? They are working on food rationing too, ask the ‘One World ‘ lot.
Animal agriculture:
“The FAO found that the animal agriculture sector emits 18%, or nearly one-fifth, of human-induced GHG emissions, more than the transportation sector.” (Steinfeld et al. 2006).
This is a serious issue that needs to be addressed and not some joke, methane is much more damaging than carbon dioxide but CAN be drastically reduced through incentives like these, the expansion of animal agriculture is destroying this planet and the sooner we take that into account in terms of environmental policy the better.
Vegetarian by any chance?
I am, and spooky is right. Going vegan or even just vegetarian would be a jab in the arm overnight to reducing our carbon emissions. Especially if you replaced the millions of square kilometres of hectares with carbon sinks.
If we use all the land for carbon sinks, where will our food come from?
And what will we do with the animals that are already out there farting? Let them starve until they die? Slaughter them to make room for carbon sinks?
No, there’s no point just killing them all. We can’t cut meat out our diet overnight anyway. But there has to be MASSIVE quotas introduced. There’s nothing wrong with beef and other meats being a rare luxury. But the intensity at which they are being bred is being ludicrous. It’s not sustainable. We’re going to have to stop doing it ANYWAY, might as well be sooner rather than later while there’s still some time to roll back the effects.
There are plenty of agricultural systems that produce less greenhouse gases. Hydroponics is a great example. The use of reconstituted mycoprotein is a great idea that’s worked for vegetarians for years.
Of course, the real elephant in the room is that it’ll be impossible to feed the growing population regardless of technique. Reducing our population whilst also changing the way we eat and changing the way we consume energy is required.
@Sean – what a moronic idea! You lot are truly for the birds.
Many of our necessary vitamins and minerals are sourced through beef and other meats, so I would have to disagree with your statement. Also, have a read of the link below, your ideas may not actually improve the environment!
@Martin – the greenies want us all to die in the name of their population reduction program – so you see not as much food will be needed.
“The only hope for the world is to make sure there is not another
United States. We can’t let other countries have the same
number of cars, the amount of industrialization, we have in the US.
We have to stop these Third World countries right where they are.”
-Michael Oppenheimer,
Environmental Defense Fund
What a nice lot of people these greenies are.
So does this mean an end to grass fed outdoor cattle for us?
With the abolition of milk quotas next year, yes most likely. Its far more profitable to have mass indoor factory farms than it is to have free range cattle. The only reason it hasn’t happened here yet is because of milk quotas.
Probably.
Not so. Ireland, UK and new Zealand are fortunate enough to have a climate that suits growing loads of grass, which is far more economical to feed to cows than say in other European countries, that have to grow other crops to feed them. This is why there are very few herds of animals kept inside 24 hours a day in Ireland, and also why our beef is nicer!
BTW, time for Big Phil “sack o’shit ” Hogan to start earning his big bucks.
I think its silly Ireland always going to the Eu for handouts. The Eu may make minor concessions in one place and kick us in the bxxxx elsewhere.
But with all the vested interest evident on these forums as happened with the property bubble its inevitable we will end up with a similar calamity in the not too distant future. Instead of ghost estates, bankrupt banks and businesses,prohibitive taxes etc we will have tsumani’s, droughts, famines etc.
The environmentalists and those with genuine concerns for the future of the planet unfortunately will mostly pay the same price as the greedy and selfish herd who just plough on with their heads in the sand.
But i guess the smart environmentalists will take steps in their lives and behaviour to protect themselves and their families. So perhaps they will have the last laugh especially when Darwinian survival of the smartest kicks in…
@Kevin – an environmentalist and a Darwinist the smart ones! Oh please!
I for one will be glad if this means extra costs on consumers, as that’s the only way to make the lunatic right wing climate change deniers do anything to cut their resource usage.
There has not been any warming for 20 years now and none of the storms, floods and other such events are unusual or unprecedented. I would love to see Ms. Robinson publish her view on UN Agenda 21
United Nations Conference on Environment & Development. Rio de Janerio, Brazil,1992.This proposed population control and other niceties such as the transfer of wealth from the developed countries to the feckless. This conference also gave birth to the IPCC which is a political body and not a scientific one as people have been led to believe and this IPCC is behind the scam of using carbon tax as means of transferring our money to some of the most corrupt places on the planet.
Vegetarians actually drink milk (which is what this discussion is based on) incase you didn’t realise.
Sorry to disappoint, but milk is not mentioned even once in the above article. If you read it again, it is about emissions from cattle livestock, which includes cows, bulls, calves, heifers, steers, etc. I assume vegetarians don’t eat any of the above?
That’s a very handsome looking bovine in the header picture ……. The picture in the article is just a regular old ugly bovine ….. Lol
The global warming study I read stated that Ireland will be a net beneficiary of GW. The country epsilon prosper in a slightly warmer environment.
get the e.u to hold all its future meeting via satellite link up/video conferencing ,not only would this save on air travel to and from all the member countries, but it would cut out a whole lot of bull s*it from the politicians .
Bull shit!
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